Device for picking chickens.



n. A. BAINTER & J. J. BERLINGQ DEVICE FOR PIGKING UHIGKENS.

APPLIUATIOK FILED JULY 1, 1907.-

908,933. Patented Jan. 5,1909.

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. 1 DAVID A. BAINTER AND JOSEPH .LBERLING, or DECATUR, INDIANA.

DEVICE'FOR PICKING GHIGKE NS,

To whom it may concern:

lBe it known that we, Davin BAINTER' and JOSEPH J. Bnnmno, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Decatur, in the county of Adams and Stateof Indiana, have invented i certain new and useful Improvements inDevices for Picking Chickens, of

which the ffillowing isa specification. 4

Our invention relates to an improvement in devices for pickingchickens,or removing hair from hogs, and the object is to provide a simple devicewhich can be passed over the body of the fowl or hog without injury tothe flesh. 1

.The invention relates to certain other novel' features of constructionand combinations of parts which will be'hereinafter described andpointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawin :-Figure 1 isa view in side elevation. ig. 21s a front view. Fig. 3 is a detail.

A, represents the base having teeth 2, 2, formed on the end, and ahandle 1 is formed on the otherend. Secured to the sides of the base areplates 3, 3, having a head 4 journaled therein, which is rotated by acrank 8, or power motor connected'to the shaft5 of the head. The head isprovided with a series 'of transverse grooves or slots .6, in which arereceived the blades 7.

In operation the baseis placed on the body of the fowl, in the same.manner as horse cli pers, the teeth bein a forced throu h 't lefeathersand the head 1s rotated where y the feathers are caught between the baseand edge of the blades, and caused to Specification; otLetters Patent.Application filed July 1, 1907. Serial No. sen ma 1 Patented an. 5,1909.

be drawn rearward whereby they are withdrawn from the body of the fowl.The same means would apply in removing the hair from hogs.

It will be seen that a very simple, cheap and inexpensive device hasbeen produced which is easy to handle and not cumbersome.

It is evident that many slight changes might be made in the form andarran ement of the several parts described without eparting from thespirit and sco e of our invention,and hence wedo not wish to be limitedto the exact construction herein set forth, but

Having -fully described our invention, what we claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is 2- As an article of manufacture, a handtool fdr picking chickens and removing hair from hogs consisting of aframe having a handle at one end and teeth at the other, and a headjournaled in the frame, means .for rotating said' head and bladesthereon which coiiperate with the teeth on the frame whereby to removethe feathers or hair as the operator ides and controls the device bymanipulating the handle.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' DAVID A. BAINTER.

JOSEPH J. BERLING.

Witnesses:

PAUL G. Hoornn, HARVEY WARRUFF.

